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A Schoolteacher’s Story
by Leslye Joy Allen Copyright © 2014 by Leslye Joy Allen. All Rights Reserved. I have been blessed. My late Dad was a full-time, hands-on Dad that believed that females had the right to do whatever...
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A Black boy and a White boy
by Leslye Joy Allen Some folk will read the title of this blog and think that this blog is about race relations or racism. This blog is not about that, at all… This blog is not about the Black boy who...
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One of My Mama’s Friends
by Leslye Joy Allen Copyright © 2015 by Leslye Joy Allen. All Rights Reserved. I have lived over fifty years and I have never really met and never really dealt with a Black woman who was passive. My...
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Mama’s “Drew Dinner”
by Leslye Joy Allen Copyright © 2015 by Leslye Joy Allen. All Rights Reserved. Whenever I arrived home and was greeted by very particular smells coming from our kitchen, I knew Drew had swung by my...
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I AM…
(for Billie, who insisted that I boldly say, “I AM,” and for Nevaina (nih-von-yah)—one of many actors who were once under Billie’s direction—who reminded me to say it even louder) Copyright © 2016 by...
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The Old Souls…
by Leslye Joy Allen “Self Portrait” by Copyright © 2015 Leslye Joy Allen. All Rights Reserved. Copyright © 2016 by Leslye Joy Allen. All Rights Reserved. This blog is just a quick update…I have...
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Honor Thy Father and Thy Mother
By Leslye Joy Allen, Copyright © 2016. All Rights Reserved. I am not going to wax poetic about the recent brutality and violence meted out to Black people at the hands of police officers; or wax poetic...
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No Ordinary Man
By Leslye Joy Allen Copyright © 2016 by Leslye Joy Allen. All Rights Reserved. Left to Right: Actor & Cultural Architect Charles Reese, Historian Leslye Joy Allen, and Actor-Director-Drama...
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Remembering Belinda (Lynn)
By Leslye Joy Allen, Copyright © 2017. (In memory of Belinda E. Fanning, August 1952 to August 2017) A good friend was laid to rest, one who could make you laugh until your sides split open, one who...
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#ImWithKap: A Lesson My Father Taught Me
by Leslye Joy Allen Copyright © by Leslye Joy Allen. All Rights Reserved I did not watch Super Bowl LIII in my hometown of Atlanta, Georgia largely in protest of the NFL’s mishandling and mistreatment...
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